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Thursday, 2 April 2015

Good luck, Jonathan, after defeat and thanks for leading the way out

Good luck, Jonathan, after defeat and thanks for leading the way out
Good luck, Jonathan, after defeat and thanks for leading the way out ,There has been some talk among politicians that what happened in Nigeria will happen here in the next General Election. I disagree.No doubt, the incumbent could be ousted in the next elections, what I doubt is that he will make a congratulatory call to the man or woman who throws him out. This is what Goodluck Jonathan did, once his streak of luck finally ran out, he quickly conceded and averted building tensions from escalating. To be fair, Prezzo UK conceded in 2002, but he wasn’t the incumbent then. And
given the political culture that’s taken root in this country since, the more probable route is the one we have experienced in the past decade or so. Someone will first, upon learning they have lost the contest based on their own assessments, try to disrupt the electoral body from reading the results as required by law. The next course of action is to call for mass action – the time-tested formula in political arm-twisting. 
The third stage is to grudgingly go to court but promise not to accept any outcome that smirks of executive interference, but how one would deduce that, I have no way of telling. But then you see, politicians are very discerning, so they might see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
The ultimate strategy is to declare that they will tour the country and address rallies. They might call those prayer meetings, meet-the-people tours, etc. So it is unlikely that our political actors have reached the maturity that Jonathan displayed in Nigeria this week.


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